Comments on: Stallman keynote‽https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/
i'm not dead yet, but i'm working on it.Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:25:14 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: aklapperhttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5473
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:08:57 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5473@humoroid: Thanks for your funny comment. Though you forgot to add the irony markers I still had a good laugh.

Just for the very unlikely case that your comment was serious:
Religion and virgins were part of the keynote *before* anything mono-related ever came up in the discussion afterwards. I pretty much know that because I was physically present while you were probably not. For future references you may want to avoid commenting on things that you have not much clue of.

]]>By: Sandyhttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5472
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:46:27 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5472There it is ;-)
]]>By: humoroidhttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5471
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:44:45 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5471This whole attitude against Richard Stallman is damaging for GNOME. What happened at GCDS was manufactured by David Schlesinger (Lefty) in order to attack the FSF and promote Mono.

I am not a huge contributor to GNOME. However my time spent on GNOME is now greatly diminished. If that matters.

]]>By: aklapperhttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5469
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:33:20 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5469@J.B.:
To your first question: I already answered this in the comments: Last year’s GCDS keynote was questionable in some areas as shown by the feedback afterwards.
To your second question: “Personal opinion”, I call it.
To your third question: Nah, sorry, didn’t feel like doing that again. Done that before.
]]>By: J.B. Nicholson-Owenshttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5468
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:16:15 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5468What specifically are you objecting to here? Why do you think citing some ridiculously over-broad speaker guidelines helps your case? What’s wrong with quoting RMS where he said something you disagree with and explaining your disagreement?
]]>By: Benjamin Ottehttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5467
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:45:27 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5467To paraphrase http://xkcd.com/468/ :
I am insulted by people that don’t insult anyone.
]]>By: alhttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5465
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:05:07 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5465humans are not perfect.
]]>By: Sandyhttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5464
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:28:44 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5464Aleks, I wasn’t specifically referring to you, but to a general attitude that seems prevalent among those who think RMS has been villainized specifically over his comments on Mono at GCDS.

Personally, when I attended his keynote I was disappointed by his general ignorance on the subject, but that’s because I did not yet understand how out-of-touch he is with this century. There are valid points to be made against Mono or .NET on any number of criteria, but RMS is not the one making them anymore.

Anyway, I can see how my earlier comments could be interpreted as strawmanning you, so I apologize for that.

@Aleks: I don’t think that Sandy refered to any of your comments but to past “discussions”. No need to feel attacked.

]]>By: Alekshttps://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2010/06/24/rms/comment-page-1/#comment-5462
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:41:58 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/?p=582#comment-5462Sandy, thanks for strawmanning me. Nowhere did I mention Novell, or anything else you said. I was referring to RMS and his interactions with Miguel de Icaza, someone highly respected in the GNOME community.
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